Anna Maria Myers

Brief Life History of Anna Maria

When Anna Maria Myers was born in 1776, her father, Harmon Myers, was 15 and her mother, Odilla, was 15. She married Samuel Simon Shearer in 1811, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died about 1836, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Simon Shearer
1774–1841
Anna Maria Myers
1776–1836
Marriage: 1811
Joseph Shearer
1812–1896
Lydia Shearer
1813–1888
Anna Margaret Shearer
1814–
Elizabeth Shearer
1816–1883
David Shearer
1817–1898
Catherine Shearer
1817–
Samuel Shearer
1821–1903
Henry Shearer
1823–1908
Reuben Shearer
1826–1911
Mary Ann Shearer
1828–1904

Sources (8)

  • Mary Ann Ulyers in entry for Henry Shearer, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
  • Mary Ann Myers in entry for Henry Shearer, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
  • Mary Ann Myers in entry for Henry Shearer, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1784

Historical Boundaries: 1784: Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

Name Meaning

Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.

English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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